Ray White is a complete waste of time

[Peter Parker]

Everyone here has missed the opportunity!

My gut feeling is "stuff you!" if there is no price.

Thinking about it logically, I have to admit that pricing was pretty useless in my previous purchases
- I needed to pay above the advertised price in bull markets and offered significantly under in down markets.

However, without prices I would want ALOT of info about a property to make it worthwhile physically examining it. REAs will need to be alot more descriptive in their adds. I'm amazed some wont even list the address!

This post reminds me of Robert Frost's poem 'The Road not Taken' and the opportunities foregone by not phoning about that sketchily described house or visiting that unpriced unit.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken_(poem)

My PPOR was bought through Ray White. It was advertised for $X+

However if $X represents excellent value relative to location and land area, and the '+' is only several hundred, then it's still good value and a quality asset.

And that's the most important thing, after memories of the effort taken to purchase fade. Besides, even if you spent 20 hours running around to research/inspect/make phone calls, and it appreciates by $100k during the period of ownership, then that's an unbeatable hourly rate better than any likely boss!

Yes, I believe that buying the house less visited can make all the difference.